Le Weekend - I had plans to fix the CD cabinet to the wall, and tack the new power cable for the music player to the skirting board. I didn’t get around to doing either for the second weekend in a row. Also had plans to start building a new shed on the allotment. Didn’t get around to that either. We did take a trip into Bristol to visit the Chinese Supermarket and I did buy a new Kindle. It was was nudie night at the swimming pool on Saturday, so of course I attended that.
It’s now half term, so no writing class this week. The boy is on holiday too, and since the dragon teaches at the same school, she also has the week off. They have some outings planned.
I should congratulate friend Kira who gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on Saturday. She Worked her last day at the office on Wednesday, gave birth on Saturday, great timing, glad she didn’t give birth at her desk. The dragon made a special birthday bear for the baby.
The Walking Dead got a bit weird this week. Who is this Aaron chap? Something not right about him.
We had a very strange blue chicken type thing in our garden at the weekend. I should have taken a picture and posted it here in case anyone could identify it. We gave it some bread crumbs and it was very hungry. The boy was quite sure it was a peacock. It wasn’t a peacock, but it did look one, but much smaller. It wouldn’t stay in our garden though and it went away. It must have escaped from somewhere. I hope he got back safely.
It looks like our planned trip to Beijing might not go ahead this year. We’ll still spend about 2 weeks in Taiwan, but mainland visas have proven difficult to obtain, so I think the China trip may have to wait until next year. I had the naive idea that a UK passport would let me into China with no problem. I have waltzed into Hong Kong with no issue in the past. In fact I think even the dragon got into HK with fairly minimal fuss on her Taiwanese passport. Turns out we are less welcome on the mainland however, and next time we plan this we’ll give it more time. It is a shame because I have never been to Beijing, but I’m sure it will happen.
There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth about sex education this week in the papers. I don’t really understand what caused the fuss, but the general feeling seems to be that the more sex education we give our children, the less likely they are to be sexually exploited. I can’t see the connection myself, but perhaps I’m just obtuse. It seems to me that sex education is an entirely pointless exercise, particularly for primary school children.
Every class of children is going to have one or two parents who don’t want their children taught about something, abortion, contraception, homosexuality for instance. You can’t teach these things if some parents object. The result being that you end up with a lesson that teaches nothing. And although everyone agrees that sex education is terribly important, no one quite seems prepared to define exactly what should be taught. Where do you draw the line? Is it OK to teach 11-year-old children about anal sex and bondage? You can’t really teach about relationships because it’s one of those things one simply has to experience. You can teach the biological side of things, but you might as well teach it in a biology lesson. I think parents should take responsibility for it.
On a related note, my son asked me last night how to get a girl to marry him. I told him he had to be receptive and listen, just be himself, not try too hard, and if all that fails get her drunk. This resulted in a very stern rebuke from my wife, and I was forced to retract my comment and explain that it was merely a joke in very bad taste.
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